I have been slowly but surely groping my way back towards a scholarship mindset, after being distracted for the last few months by more sundry issues (job-hunting; logistics of moving an academic office across the state, etc) and more novel … Continue reading
I don’t think I’ve been very explicit about my future employment stuff in my social media empire, so in case any of my friends have been living under a rock, I start up a new position this fall as a … Continue reading
So for the last couple of weeks or so, I’ve been “DJ-ing” on Blip.fm, pushing the content out to the rest of my social media empire through Twitter. Initially I’ve had little purpose other than to highlight songs I like. … Continue reading
So, I’ve decided to do an art/history project of some sort that’ll be a mixture of photography and personal memoir (hey, I’m a historian after all). The subject will be my old hometown of Marshall, Michigan, and I’ll be doing … Continue reading
For those interested in these sorts of things, I thought I would drop some links about my recent scholarly publications. You can’t actually see the articles online or anything (at least not without some academic library access for one), but … Continue reading
Not that I’m some professional web designer or anything (because I’m not), but I have been playing around in the web design arena lately. Head on over to the website for Central Michigan University Department of History’s Center for Transnational … Continue reading
Nothing fucking worse than dissertation writer’s block. N-O-T-H-I-N-G! It’s a special layer of pain and degradation in Dante’s literary Hell (he cut this one out of his final draft). It sits there and mocks you in a voice like that … Continue reading
In my banter with one of my friends Lemont, who also happens to be a historian, we usually at some point digress into what I would tentatively describe as the historian’s version of a ‘Yo Mama’ face-off. Usually this is … Continue reading
While re-reading a section of Joseph J. Lee’s Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society today, I came across this snippet from his retrospective analysis of the career of Eamon de Valera (the founder of the Irish Fianna Fail party and one … Continue reading